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Diabetes Update: What You Need to Know, An issue of Clinics in Podiatric Medicine and Surgery

  • 1st Edition, Volume 43-2 - March 23, 2026
  • Latest edition
  • Editors: Brandon Brooks, Bijan Najafi, David G. Armstrong
  • Language: English

In this issue of Clinics in Podiatric Medicine and Surgery, guest editors Drs. Brandon Brooks, Bijan Najafi, and David Armstrong bring their considerable expertise to the topic… Read more

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In this issue of Clinics in Podiatric Medicine and Surgery, guest editors Drs. Brandon Brooks, Bijan Najafi, and David Armstrong bring their considerable expertise to the topic of Diabetes Update: What You Need to Know. Diabetes mellitus, particularly Type 2 diabetes, has emerged as one of the most pressing global health challenges of the 21st century, driven by factors such as obesity, sedentary lifestyles, and aging populations. In this issue, top experts provide pearls of knowledge and wisdom for podiatric physicians and surgeons who treat and manage patients with diabetes mellitus.

Key features

  • Contains 14 relevant, practice-oriented topics including the diabetes pandemic in the post-COVID-19 lockdown era; benefits of multidisciplinary limb preservation teams; understanding Charcot and diabetic bone disease; the art of the definitive amputation: pearls to reduce reamputation; GLP1s and surgery: what you need to know; and more
  • Provides in-depth clinical reviews on diabetes update: what you need to know, offering actionable insights for clinical practice
  • Presents the latest information on this timely, focused topic under the leadership of experienced editors in the field. Authors synthesize and distill the latest research and practice guidelines to create clinically significant, topic-based reviews

Readership

Podiatrists

Table of contents

The Way of the Recession: Surgical Off-loading via Intramuscular Fascial Lengthening in the Diabetic Foot
Postoperative Pain Management Considerations in Patients with Type 2 Diabetes Mellitus
Biomarkers in Diabetic Foot
Understanding DREADD (Diabetes-Related Extremity Amputation Depression and Distress)
Flexor Tendon Tenotomy in Diabetic Toe Ulcers: Evidence and Clinical Application
Benefits of Multi-Disciplinary Limb Preservation Teams
American Limb Preservation Society, Diabetic Foot Conference, and More: How to Get Involved in Limb Preservation
Understanding Charcot and Diabetic Bone Disease
The Art of the Definitive Amputation: Pearls to Reduce Reamputation
Bridging the Gap: Collaborative Care Models Between Podiatrists and Certified Diabetes Care and Education Specialists to Improve Outcomes in Diabetes-Related Foot Complications
Walking the Line: How Social Forces Shape Diabetic Foot Outcomes in the Texas Rio Grande Valley
Behavior Change in the Diabetic Foot: A Primer

Product details

  • Edition: 1
  • Latest edition
  • Volume: 43-2
  • Published: March 23, 2026
  • Language: English

About the editors

BB

Brandon Brooks

Affiliations and expertise
Podiatric Surgeon, U.S Department of Veterans Affairs, Columbia, South Carolina, USA

BN

Bijan Najafi

Affiliations and expertise
Professor, Surgery University of California, Los Angeles, California

DA

David G. Armstrong

Affiliations and expertise
Clinical Scholar, USC Schaeffer Institute, Professor of Surgery, Keck School of Medicine of USC, Director, Southwestern Academic Limb Salvage Alliance (SALSA), Los Angeles, California